Developing Others as Leaders
Student 2025
6.2Discussion.GrowthinLeadershipDevelopment.docx6.2 Discussion. Growth in Leadership Development
Getting Started
We’ve covered quite a bit of ground in six weeks – training, development, coaching, mentoring, strengths-based approaches, delegation, empowerment, trust, and leadership succession. Each of you interviewed a leader about their practices and processes for developing other leaders, and you examined how your values and virtues impact your approach to leadership development. As you have learned about developing other leaders, you have continued to evolve as a leader yourself.
“People development is life-changing for everyone involved” (Maxwell, 1995, p. 171).
This week, you have the opportunity to learn from each other through your summaries of your Leader2Leader talks and take a deeper dive at how values and virtues impact your motivation and capacity to develop others. As a final assignment, you will get to practice developing a leadership development plan.
Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:
· Reflect on Leader2Leader insights
· Synthesize key learning from the course material.
Background Information
In preparation for this week’s discussion, post your Leader-Talk Report in the discussion forum, and read the Saunderson (2020) article(new tab) as well as review the resources covered in this course.
Instructions
1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
2. Review the information in the Getting Started and Background Information sections.
3. Create an initial discussion post (250-300 words), based upon the following prompts:
a. What were the two most important things you learned in the Leader2Leader Dialogue experience for this course?
b. Consider the past six weeks. How has your understanding of developing others changed through what you have learned through this course? What are the two most important insights you have gained? How will you put them into practice “right away?”
c. As a leader, how would you articulate your responsibility to develop others?
